In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

My life is my message.

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.